Ripping effect

Ok, I don't know who can answer my question, but please try. I'm trying to get a real low sounding death metal sounding effect. I have the DOD death metal pedal, a B.C. Rich Warlock, and a 65w Peavey studio pro 110. The lowest sound of distortion I have right now, I am just not statisfied with. What can i do?

Welcome to Guitar Tricks,Static71!

I think we'd have a better chance of helping you out if you could explain what you mean by "low sound of distortion".

Try turning down the distortion knob, switching to the neck pickup, palm muting, turning up the bass and treble and lowering the mids.

I'm assuming that by "lowering the sound of distortion", you mean lowering the tone, rather than reducing the amount of distortion; i.e. making it more "chunky". Try the above tips.

Um..drop your tuning to C? I dunno what to say, except what's already been mentioned. With some amps you can get a more meaty sound by turning down all the volumes on your amp (bass, midds, and treble) so more of the total volume is what the amp fills in. At least I think that's how it works, I can't really remember because I haven't used distortion in about half a year and I wasn't the most knowledgeable about it before then either.

What I meant was, I'm trying to get a real heavy sound. Examples of bands like Nile and Six Feet Under. Now I'm not trying to imitate any bands, but I just want get close to their sound, Death metal. I have drop my tuning to C already anyway.

Any suggestions on what kind of equipment I can use to help me? (pedals, processors)

I use an old Digitech Rp-6 processor and I can get some pretty chuggin distortion sounds.

If you're using a regular distortion pedal through and amp, turn the gain up pretty high, around 8 or so.

Then turn the bass on your amp up pretty high,7 or 8, turn the mids down to about 3 and the treble around 5 or so.

You should get a pretty good chugging sound.

Keep in mind if you want to play with a band, it will be hard to hear your guitar with the mids scooped like that.

Check out the tips in my first reply. Also, try using heavier gauge strings, like .10s or .11s. (in case that doesn't mean anything to you, when you get strings, make sure that the lowest string gauge value is .10 or .11; e.g. a set may say something like .11-.53 somewhere on the package).

I've found that I get a thicker sound with a little less distortion than I used to think was necessary. With my Boss MT-2, I like to have the lows pumped, the highs at around 1 o'clock, the outer mid dial at 2 o'clock and the smaller mid dial at 10 o'clock. The distortion I set to taste, normally between 9 and 1 o'clock. I used to crank it, but found that there was better note clarity and "chunk" between 9 and 1 o'clock.

I almost never switch off the neck pickup (I just prefer the tone and volume), and I like to keep the tone dial at 10 and I play around with the volume a bit, but normally it's at 10 also.

Try that out, see what happens let us know. Keep asking 'till you get a good answer. Oh, and try the search function.

e.g. Click here - aren't you proud of me, Lordathestrings?.... heh heh, this thread showed up in the search...

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That actually worked pretty good, thanks.